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View is shared by many in the obama department of educating -- >> including arne duncan apparently. >> yes recent research shows class sizes are not the big determinant of performance. parents are skeptical you can argue about how big is too big. if romney is questioning the link between class size and performance, hes in the company of like i said, i would bet most of the obama employees on this issue. >> how does romney respond to this ad or should he ignore it? >> i think the ad is fairly pre...

What planet is he living on when wwhere he thinks we can take these kind of hits in our education system and progress as a country? i would suggest he is living on a different planet if he thinks that is a prescription for a stronger economy. >> a very different planet, the romney tron perhaps? no he is coming from a place like massachusetts! where he saw fit to enact those very cuts he is talking about as illustrated in a new obama ad. >> local government was cut dramatically. we lost police, f...

Now is very similar. people ask what does it mean for me and my kid, when they have a problem with it. with respect to class size, back to the budget battles, the president wanted $30 billion more for express purposes of saving 230,000 teacher jobs. if romney were to say, wed like more teachers in the classroom, i would agree with the concept of smaller class sizes, how do you get that $30 billion passed. >> conservatives love to talk about american exceptionalism and now their candidate is talk...

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>> of course,. >> i cant think of a parent that would say i would like my teacher to be in a room with a lot of kids and only one teacher. >> you ckacan give more personalized attention to each student if you have a smaller class size. i have to agree with mr. morris. >> in first through third grades, forever the class size is under 18, those kids stay ahead of everybody else all the way through school, including classes where you might have 25 in the class and co-teachers. >> i mean, class size...

And present a whole different load of facts that downer what he said during that primary debate? >> the thing about it, when youre governor, there are a lot of things taking place. so yes, the accomplishments the governor ticked off are true. at the same time, the democrats have a whole raft of ammunition that theyll bring up. theyll talk about how long term debt in the state increased 16% under his tenure. theyre going to talk about how he vetoed a proposal to reduce class size in schools. so t...

No democrat lost since walter mondale went up against ronald reagan. david axelrod says he believes the president will do fine in wisconsin. >> bret: we will be there june 4-5. thank you. governor romney tried to take president obama to school today over his education plan and what quickly evolved in a debate about who is really out of touch. chief political correspondent carl cameron with the election campus. >> romney toured a philadelphia charter school. told the community that its reached a ...

In the whole time ive been teaching 10 years, 13 years, who would say they would -- more students would benefit them. >> of course,. >> i cant think of a parent that would say i would like my teacher to be in a room with a lot of kids and only one teacher. >> you can give more personalized attention to each student if you have a smaller class size. i have to agree with mr. morris. >> in first through third grades, forever the class size is under 18, those kids stay ahead of everybody else all th...